Cheating in Politics Exam?

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21303390

Harvard asks dozens of students to leave for cheating

Harvard University has imposed academic sanctions on dozens of students for cheating in a final exam, a dean said in an email to students.

"More than half" of 125 students under investigation were asked to leave for a period of time; others face probation.

An inquiry began when a tutor noticed identical answers to a take-home exam for an undergraduate politics course.

The review expanded to include nearly half the 279 students enrolled in the course, the Harvard Crimson said.

Correspondents say there have been complaints that exam rules for the Introduction to Congress class were unclear, and over the university's handling of the investigation.

(continued, explains why they all gave the same answer then, with the same spelling mistakes? maybe communists?)

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Surely, cheating should be an essential part of any politics course?

Edit: Ah, of course, they failed the "getting away with it" element!

[rainbow]

Naturally you can't be a proper politician until you can cheat and get away with it.

[klr]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21303390

Harvard asks dozens of students to leave for cheating

Harvard University has imposed academic sanctions on dozens of students for cheating in a final exam, a dean said in an email to students.

"More than half" of 125 students under investigation were asked to leave for a period of time; others face probation.

An inquiry began when a tutor noticed identical answers to a take-home exam for an undergraduate politics course.

The review expanded to include nearly half the 279 students enrolled in the course, the Harvard Crimson said.

Correspondents say there have been complaints that exam rules for the Introduction to Congress class were unclear, and over the university's handling of the investigation.

(continued, explains why they all gave the same answer then, with the same spelling mistakes? maybe communists?)

A take-home exam? That's practically asking for industrial-scale cheating.

And I hope Harvard is using anti-plagiarism software to keep track of such nefarious doings.

[Tyrannical]

Yup, they failed the lying aspect of the course.

[JimC]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21303390

Harvard asks dozens of students to leave for cheating

Harvard University has imposed academic sanctions on dozens of students for cheating in a final exam, a dean said in an email to students.

"More than half" of 125 students under investigation were asked to leave for a period of time; others face probation.

An inquiry began when a tutor noticed identical answers to a take-home exam for an undergraduate politics course.

The review expanded to include nearly half the 279 students enrolled in the course, the Harvard Crimson said.

Correspondents say there have been complaints that exam rules for the Introduction to Congress class were unclear, and over the university's handling of the investigation.

(continued, explains why they all gave the same answer then, with the same spelling mistakes? maybe communists?)

A take-home exam? That's practically asking for industrial-scale cheating.

And I hope Harvard is using anti-plagiarism software to keep track of such nefarious doings.

Take-home exams are utterly and totally pointless. Hominids have been selected for millions of years for their ability to cheat. Rigorous exam conditions are required to deal with that.

[rainbow]

Take-home exams are utterly and totally pointless. Hominids have been selected for millions of years for their ability to cheat. Rigorous exam conditions are required to deal with that.

Epic fail!

Are you not aware that all politicians are shape-shifting alien lizards, and therefore not hominid?